N. Korea: We are no longer bound by nuclear test moratorium

Exactly. We all live in the Imperial Empire. We are all just trying to do our best under America's iron heel.

Ok, then I suggest one of you guys try go to NK for a holiday, if you managed to get in you'd probably get shot as a spy when they caught you.

I get the anti-American-Imperialist sentiment, yeah we all know that stuff, but if you think that the 'leaders' of NK give a flyin' f**k about 'their
nations prosperity' aka the people of their nation, then you are either trolling or just being dumb for the sake of it.

You obviously saw the videos of thousands of people hysterically crying in public at the death of kim-whatever-the-hell-his-name-was? Do you think
those people were acting normally? Did those scenes raise any questions in your mind?

To so easily condemn an entire nation to starvation for the acts and political ideology of a rogue state under the thumb of one
man.........WOW.....Hitler sure could have used a large number of people like you. How do you spell ignorance again?

To so easily condemn an entire nation to starvation for the acts and political ideology of a rogue state under the thumb of one
man.........WOW.....Hitler sure could have used a large number of people like you. How do you spell ignorance again?

North Korea condemned its own people...........its the reason that its people are in the state they are.....

People say the US needs to stay out, but then when we pull out people cry foul.........which is it?

What do you want?

Granted im not happy with the terms, that we only will help them on terms .......however.......

The NK gov agreed to this..........

if they cared about their people at all they wouldnt be in this situation to begin with......even more so making a decision they know condemns many to
death by starvation......

This isnt a problem because of other countries...........the situation arose because of NK's gov.....

Kim Jong-Il was crazy, but relatively predictable in my opinion. After so many years of observance and due to the fact that he was still mostly under
the thumb of his father Kim Il-sung until his death in '94, there was really no surprise to many of things he did right up until his own death.

I've never given North Korea much serious thought in terms of being a significant threat to world peace in general, but this Kim Jong-un has me truly
worried and has caused me to gradually change that opinion since he came to power. He's either seriously hardline or dangerously unstable, and each
story that comes out paints a more disturbing image of this still unknown young ruler.

Given the recent political rumblings within China in the past few weeks, I'm quite curious as to how they view this new emerging DPRK. Maybe it might
soon be time to open a dialogue with them about their "spoiled child".

Wrong,no,no.We still have to care as we always have for the North Korean people.We send our undying care to them in the form of a surgical
decapitation strike.Then help Korea build itself into a viable nation.

"We have thus become able to take necessary retaliatory measures, free from the agreement," the ministry said in a statement carried by the
official Korean Central News Agency. "The U.S. will be held wholly accountable for all the ensuing consequences." "Peace is very dear for us but
the dignity of the nation and the sovereignty of the country are dearer for us," the statement said, without specifying what countermeasures North
Korea might take.

To keep on topic, NK is right and the contract has been broken. From my limited assessment of the past few weeks, some steps had been taken to
increase transparency. Not sure how much on the nuclear side but there was some public acceptance to acknowledge the situation for what it is. There
was some exposure and invitations available for the rocket preparations. North Korea sounds like it is trying and moving slow with their entrenched
stagnation over many years.

The US and others want to pick up the pace, give them a huge volume of paperwork in a foreign language and responding to all the orders. Patience and
understanding is going to be needed to establish clear lines of communication and implement the changes in a timely fashion. For anyone interested in
understanding where NK is at ideology then Juche is a good start www.korea-dpr.com...

If the US and others really want to get on top of this, then it is not how they respond to this nuclear issue but how South Korea does. Parts of both
sides do want to reunite with the military restructure a big job and where Kim Jong Un looks focused. The Security Council needs to stop worrying
about how North Korea handles the nuclear issue and start thinking about how Korea does.

Of course absolutely we will do as the South want us to do,the US has been far too busy at adventurism lately.What boggles my mind is we have a left
winger/socialist in office out doing Reagan with the body count oppressive lawmaking and the liberals love him!

Some kid really needs to go take a vacation to NK and see how people are forced to work with no water till they die as punishment for speaking their
minds about not having crap to eat.

The same Kid needs to learn history on the Korean war. It was a war Forced by NK backed by Russia. The U.N. FORCES were there to stop the invading
communist NK from taking control of the south. America was just the lead army in that war. We kicked the NK army all the way up to the Chinese border,
then the American Potus did not listen to MacArthur and millions of Chinese poured into NK and pushed us back to the south, Mac put a real general in
charge and we then kicked the Chicoms in the nuts and pushed them back to the border that you see today.

Had the U.N. not stopped the American military when the Chicoms then came begging for peace, NK would be gone and the Chicoms would have lost probably
a good deal of land itself.

Love, hate or indifferent we have to work with him or else the body count will go a lot higher. Democratic principles are getting implemented in the
North, as for how effective they currently are maybe questionable but it is starting and would expect improvements as the system matures. The big
messy question for now is, how does the North's political system merge with the South?

Kim looks to be sitting on the sideline of the fast and furious world of political debate, which is a wise thing. But what would happen if there was a
military junta? Which is raising a lot of concern in the international community. What sort of constitution will hold the nation together after all of
its troubles and how exactly are the separation of powers defined. Is it possible to put together a short, concise brief that everyone can agree on?

America and Democracy first got into Korea around 1910. As the cold war was starting up between the USA and USSR, Korea got crushed in the conflict.
Now the reasons for the wall are no longer their, except out of tradition. There is still some lose ends and cleaning up to do, but the issue of
effective governance are becoming clearer as North Korea is moving towards democratic rule.

The main parties in NK at the moment are the DRPK (Democrats Peoples Republic of Korea) and the WPK (Workers Party of Korea). There are others with
some listed at eng.unikorea.go.kr...

From what I can see looking into it, NK is very much preparing to engage SK in a national political arena. There is still a lot of discussion going
on, but with SK having twice as many people that NK they will also likely end up with twice as many seats in a national assembly. While NK is somewhat
guarded, it does appear acceptable. I expect a lot of healthy debate, but if it continues along the lines of lots of hate, slander and blame, progress
will be very slow and unproductive.

Governments are about setting the long term strategy and culture for the common good with both sides needing to learn how to communicate more
effectively to achieve this. There is a lot of work going on to achieve this with the internet helping, but also hindering at times promoting the same
old stereotypes and folk devils to what is a very complex situation.

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